Age: 65
Gender: Male
Personality: Sakaki is considerably more intelligent than the average oni. This does not stop him from being violent, brutal, and bloodthirsty. He sees no need to check his drives—any of them—and exercises his power under no more limits than those absolutely necessary. Fighitng is a way of life for him, but so is tactical cunning, making him a dangerous foe in even the safest of situations.
Information: Sakaki has a wider range of powers than most oni. His ki seems to be lightning-aligned, which enables him to enhance his own body and capabilities by manipulating his bioelectricity. It gives him a particularly nasty berserk mode, among other things. He lost his horns in a fight with Makoto’s father, though he and the Slayer do not know this about each other.
Relationship to Whom: Unknowingly the biological father of Naomi Fujita | Yakuza Second-in-Command
Age: 59
Gender: Male
Personality: Hayabusa is a stern, forbidding sort of fellow upon first pass, but one with very large, very obvious soft spots, for his wife, daughter, surrogate son, and anyone he finds under his care. As a former Slayer, he is very accomplished in his craft, though being only human, he has never had the particular talent for it that Makoto has. Still, there’s plenty he can still teach the whelp, and a few other people, too.
Information: Hayabusa lost his left arm in a battle with an oni during the war, forcing an early retirement from his trade. Still, when he settled outside of Edo, he did it with the intent of serving Nanami Yoshida and her children until he died. While not a hunter herself, she was the last of her noble clan, after all. His ki, like Makoto’s, is air-aligned, enabling him to pass on many of his techniques and watch them transform under the hand of his student. Though aged perhaps a little prematurely by a hard life, he is nevertheless strong and vital even at nearly sixty, and hasn’t lost much of his edge, even considering the arm.
Relationship to Whom: Father to Yuzuki Mori | Mentor and Trainer of Makoto Yoshida
Age: 50
Gender: Female
Personality: Chinatsu is as chatty and sociable as her daughter, and a generally amiable person to be around. Her job as the town’s tailor means that she interacts with a lot of different people, and she has a sociable demeanor about her… not to mention an opinion on everything.
Information: Chinatsu has enough ki power to do small things like light fires and keep herself warm (her ki is fire-aligned), but she is far from a warrior, and prefers to keep this information to herself.
Relationship to Whom: Mother to Yuzuki Mori | “Aunt” to Makoto Yoshida
Age: 43
Gender: Female
Personality: Nanami’s heart is assuredly in the right place. Her life has hardly been easy—she was thrown from an existence as a clan princess into a life of near-poverty as a result of the first war, and without much of a way to make due for herself, it was perhaps unsurprising that she had difficulty adjusting. But she has come through admirably for the sake of her children, learning a trade and plying it now in the absence of her husband. She is the town’s apothecary and medicine woman, and her history as the last heir to a clan of Slayers is unknown to all but a few.
Information: Nanami has never been a fighter—it isn’t really in her nature. She never learned to slay demons growing up, and when her family was overrun by oni, she was saved largely by a stroke of luck—the warlord who accomplished the feat took a shine to her, and kept her much as one keeps a pet, only… with implications. When she found out she was going to have his child, she feared for the fate of her hanyou baby and fled in the night, using her family’s skills to avoid being tracked, and made her way to the outskirts of Edo. There, she had Makoto, and eventually found herself a husband who was willing to accept her child as well. She bore him triplets—but not until just after his own death. Fortunately, she had learned enough of his craft to get by, and taught herself the rest as she went along. She is conflicted about Makoto’s choice to take up her family’s mantle, but she knows it’s not her choice to make, any longer.
Relationship to Whom: Mother of Makoto Yoshida | Distant Relative of Yuzuki Mori
Age: 12
Gender: Female, Female, and Male
Personality: The triplets are mischievous children, and often drive their much older brother Makoto halfway to a headache by midday. Shin is a bit more serious than his sisters, and Rinko is incredibly shy, but Momoko knows no limits whatsoever. The three together are a potent combination. They, unlike Makoto, have their father’s last name rather than their mother’s, and all three of them are wholly human—though still of Slayer blood.
Information: Shin and Momoko know a few things about weapons, and Rinko is actually a very talented healer. Her ki, like Yuzuki’s, is heaven-aligned. All of them have received some basic training in their abilities, but considering how young they are, they still have very far to go.
Relationship to Whom: Half-Siblings to Makoto Yoshida